MA Design for Visual Communication (Online)

Course overview

As a current student or graduate of Postgraduate Diploma Design for Visual Communication, you can apply to the optional MA Design for Visual Communication – an additional 60-credit unit where you’ll be supported by tutors to pursue a self-directed project and achieve a Master’s award upon completion.  

This unit will enable you to advance your portfolio even further with advanced critical skills that demonstrate a high level of design research and practice. Delivered online to accommodate flexible learning while enabling you to develop your own self-structured learning journey, you’ll engage with the course through tutorials, peer-to-peer feedback, workshops and community building sessions.   

You’ll also be encouraged to pursue a project that can be achieved in collaboration with a company, charity, cultural institution or other organisation.   

What to expect

• The 20-week MA unit provides an exciting, challenging and unique opportunity for current PgDip students and graduates to engage with an extended, research-led period of practical study.   

• You'll build on a deep understanding of the fundamental principles of design in practice with critical, contextual design thinking and research in an applied context.  

• Supporting the focus and diverse ambition of our students towards purposeful and applied practice, this phase will provide scope for you to specialise more intensely in a subject area of your choice that you’ll develop in consultation with your tutor.

• Core teaching and learning methods include one-to-one tutorials; asynchronous workshops and lectures; synchronous community events, presentations, seminars and workshops; and supervised technical workshops.   

• You’ll also have access to LCC's facilities including the library, Academic and Language Support, Enterprise and Employability, Digital Space, Creative Technology Lab among others.

• You’ll be prepared to use your design skills and literacy in the context of business, policy, strategy, social activism and creative directorship, in addition to other leadership roles that value critical and creative thinking grounded in practical and technical skills.

Who is this course for?  

If you’re a current PgDip student or recent graduate, you may be interested in taking this higher qualification to:  

• Deepen the specialism you developed on the Postgraduate Diploma, or through relevant work experience  

• Develop a larger collaborative project with an industry partner or organisation 

• Work on this self-directed, practice-led design research project towards further research study.  

Mode of Study 

MA Design for Visual Communication is in Full Time mode which runs for 20 weeks over the Autumn and Spring terms. You will be expected to commit 30 hours per week to study. 

Home fee

£3,560

This fee is correct for 2025/26 entry and is subject to change for 2026/27 entry.

Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year. For this course, you can pay tuition fees in instalments.

Home fees are currently charged to UK nationals and UK residents who meet the rules. However, the rules are complex. Find out more about our tuition fees and determining your fee status.

International fee

£7,620

This fee is correct for 2025/26 entry and is subject to change for 2026/27 entry.

Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year. For this course, you can pay tuition fees in instalments.

Home fees are currently charged to UK nationals and UK residents who meet the rules. However, the rules are complex. Find out more about our tuition fees and determining your fee status.